Lyrics The Bible and the Breathalyzer - The Mars Volta
Among
the
tattered
dwelling
of
the
new
found
home,
in
the
furthest
cramped
corner
sat
the
shell
of
a
goat
head
strangled
in
copper
wire,
scraped
of
its
insides,
unwashed
behind
the
ears,
fueling
the
crooked
names
spoken
by
leeches.
To
a
thinning
cowlick′s
fat
his
crippled
limp,
dragging
along
the
hump
of
the
floor.
Sobbing
from
the
smacking
mouth
of
the
demagogue
wells,
making
wisecracks,
spilling
from
the
corners
with
their
pink
flinches,
second
glancing
their
every
move.
It
ate
pickled
nose
cartilage
that
fell
from
the
ceilings,
a
pork
skin
drizzle
unnerving
the
humans,
while
it
read
aloud
from
its
favorite
books,
in
glossolalia
slang
and
haruspex
truths,
following
a
slow
and
patient
wait,
a
mocking
their
hair
as
it
was
glued
to
their
upper
lip
combover.
Under
the
wall,
the
ships
smeared
by
faithfully
talking
the
magnum
fanatics
and
their
bottles
of
scalp
soup.
They
cooked
up
a
tardis
smudge
on
their
eyes,
a
lunar
antidote
that
powdered
underneath
the
oncoming
pestilence
of
their
idling
fingers.
It
wrote
them
a
seance,
penetrated
their
every
dependent
desire.
It
hacked
off
the
central
headpiece
to
the
collective.
It
wrote
them
a
message
in
the
marrow
of
the
knife,
with
the
extension
of
Baphomet*
transfusion.
Glued
to
the
animals,
perversions
of
their
former
selves,
patiently
biting
their
fingernails
looking
for
a
clue.
As
soon
as
it
failed
to
appear,
the
faithful
fell
under
the
spell
of
public
execution.
It
had
been
an
eternity
filled
with
useless
ritual,
and
all
for
nothing,
promising
salvation,
but
only
flags
came
swarming
around
for
a
better
taste.
What
was
left
were
the
scraps,
dressed
in
animal
skin,
defiled
servants
holding
their
breath,
fatherless
culprits
blaming
their
kin,
waiting
for
an
answer.
They
thought
a
day
would
come,
or
a
giraffe
might
choke
in
midair
squeal,
some
sort
of
indication.
Only
it
was
the
hands
of
the
followers
that
had
left
their
markings
in
neatly
packed
dunes
filled
with
the
decapitated
remains,
found
sealed
in
sand.
It
only
stained
the
conscious
for
a
brief
moment,
then
came
disgust.
Realizing
there
was
nothing
to
it,
people
began
collapsing
in
collective
states
of
drought.
Palm-size
vents
heating
in
the
chest,
cluttering
the
graph,
a
bladder
full
of
remains.
Nothing
became
of
them
because
nothing
was
the
reason,
an
apathetic
display
dripping
into
vats
of
obesity.
The
feud
had
been
sucking
teeth
for
some
time
now,
but
the
only
baggage
that
paraded
about
was
the
curtain
epidermis
unfolded
in
an
inebriated
suit.
The
fit
came
suffocating,
feathering
the
boa-constricted
paleness,
frostbitten,
and
shovel-faced.
It
came
before
them
in
utter
confidence,
flares
of
pink
owls
in
the
nest
of
albino
eyelids
blinking
out
chemical
obscurities
to
the
blind.
It
bloomed
into
a
hemorrhaged
contraption
that
impopulated
the
disenchanted,
one
by
one.
All
the
churches
were
converted
into
quarantine
facilities,
inside
them
grew
bacterial
stubble
compacted
by
larvae,
contracting
and
teething.
A
newborn
litter
degradively
sufficient,
running
from
the
horse
collarbone,
amongst
the
murmuring
femurs
whimpering
in
fractures.
"Are
you
the
Polaroid
shot
you
thought
you
were?",
it
said
with
a
coy
smirk.
With
the
position
now
vacant,
it
waltzed
right
in
and
made
itself
at
home.
Seduced
by
the
empty
nominations
at
the
altar
of
broken
ballot
boxes,
closer
to
that
nothingness
that
everyone
seemed
to
embrace.
As
it
pissed
all
over
them,
the
sigh
of
relief
steamed
off
the
soaking
depressants,
an
impending
sleep
was
on
its
way.
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